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No mail for me ... ):
Nov. 22nd, 2007 02:33 amWhat the hell, I got nothing in the mail today?!
I'm expecting my moo cards (don't ask, even I don't know what I ordered them for), 2 pairs of shoes, backpack, and an mp3 player.
Since my moo cards had to be re-printed they're delayed a little. I did think they'd probably arrive today, and they didn't.
My shoes were probably dispatched on Monday, and the e-Mail I got suggests that they were sent via DHL. Which is good, because most of the time DHL stuff sent from within Germany arrives within a day for me. (On the topic of DHL, Real Life comic from a few days ago ...). But the shoes didn't arrive today.
As to the backpack, thinking it'd be here today was probably a little optimistic. According to the seller details, they usually send stuff off within 3-4 business days, and they might wait for the one that I've returned to arrive at their store. So, no new backpack today.
The mp3 player? I got a dispatch note from amazon this morning, and as far as I remember, getting it around 12 hours later just ever happened once for me. So, no new mp3 player for me either. I fully expect it to arrive tomorrow though.
I'll probably go spawncamp the Packstation at around 5pm.
In other news, I found two neat plug-ins, one for Firefox, one for Thunderbird:
Flashblock for Firefox: Name says it. It nicely complements Adblock which currently doesn't capture flash ads ([edit] actually, let me correct this, I think it does these days, at least in part). Flashblock doesn't distinguish between ad- and non-ad-flashs though. It just stops any flash on a site from being displayed unless the user clicks on a placeholder to activate it. Very useful for people like me, with low-end computers. For example, the flash animation on the german Audi website totally maxes out my CPU usage and stops Firefox from responding (i.e. Firefox displays the flash animation, but it doesn't react to clicks or keypresses anymore.).
Send Later, Thunderbird plug-in: In contrast to the built-in send later functionality, this one lets you set a date and time to send off an e-Mail. I guess this is not something you'd use everyday, but it's useful sometimes: For example, I want to send something to Chrischi's work e-Mail, but he's on vacation, and someone else is checking his mail. Of course, I don't want that other person to see the comics I want to send Chrischi (I don't think a lot of people even get that Portal-related vgcats comic). So, I'd decided to send that to Chrischi about a week ago, yet I'd have to wait with actually sending it until the 26th or something. I would've forgot until then, so instead I'm composing the e-Mail right away and just set it to be sent later (the e-Mail remains in the drafts folder until then.).
Of course, you can also use it to send little reminders to your mobile phone, which I did today (:
Anyway, the Send Later user interface is pretty simple, and far from pretty (drop downs for year, month, day, hour, and minute), but it's functional, and as such, I like it.
I'm expecting my moo cards (don't ask, even I don't know what I ordered them for), 2 pairs of shoes, backpack, and an mp3 player.
Since my moo cards had to be re-printed they're delayed a little. I did think they'd probably arrive today, and they didn't.
My shoes were probably dispatched on Monday, and the e-Mail I got suggests that they were sent via DHL. Which is good, because most of the time DHL stuff sent from within Germany arrives within a day for me. (On the topic of DHL, Real Life comic from a few days ago ...). But the shoes didn't arrive today.
As to the backpack, thinking it'd be here today was probably a little optimistic. According to the seller details, they usually send stuff off within 3-4 business days, and they might wait for the one that I've returned to arrive at their store. So, no new backpack today.
The mp3 player? I got a dispatch note from amazon this morning, and as far as I remember, getting it around 12 hours later just ever happened once for me. So, no new mp3 player for me either. I fully expect it to arrive tomorrow though.
I'll probably go spawncamp the Packstation at around 5pm.
In other news, I found two neat plug-ins, one for Firefox, one for Thunderbird:
Flashblock for Firefox: Name says it. It nicely complements Adblock which currently doesn't capture flash ads ([edit] actually, let me correct this, I think it does these days, at least in part). Flashblock doesn't distinguish between ad- and non-ad-flashs though. It just stops any flash on a site from being displayed unless the user clicks on a placeholder to activate it. Very useful for people like me, with low-end computers. For example, the flash animation on the german Audi website totally maxes out my CPU usage and stops Firefox from responding (i.e. Firefox displays the flash animation, but it doesn't react to clicks or keypresses anymore.).
Send Later, Thunderbird plug-in: In contrast to the built-in send later functionality, this one lets you set a date and time to send off an e-Mail. I guess this is not something you'd use everyday, but it's useful sometimes: For example, I want to send something to Chrischi's work e-Mail, but he's on vacation, and someone else is checking his mail. Of course, I don't want that other person to see the comics I want to send Chrischi (I don't think a lot of people even get that Portal-related vgcats comic). So, I'd decided to send that to Chrischi about a week ago, yet I'd have to wait with actually sending it until the 26th or something. I would've forgot until then, so instead I'm composing the e-Mail right away and just set it to be sent later (the e-Mail remains in the drafts folder until then.).
Of course, you can also use it to send little reminders to your mobile phone, which I did today (:
Anyway, the Send Later user interface is pretty simple, and far from pretty (drop downs for year, month, day, hour, and minute), but it's functional, and as such, I like it.
